User blog comment:Biggren/The Silvir Conquest/@comment-32303-20140610065814

Name: Rhiannon Galedeep (Nickname: "Rhia")

Species: Sea Otter

Gender: Female

Personality: Rhiannon is a veteran warrior of many seasons, with a hardened soul blocked from most emotion. Too many sorrows have scarred her and made her cold, so cold that to some goodbeasts she seems as heartless as any vermin. She has absolutely no pity for vermin, and no mercy when it comes to fighting them. It's hard for Rhia to accept any goodbeast that are normally vermin, but she can do it--except in the case of weasels. She loathes them and can never accept that one might be at all good. The otter's highland accent is typically faint, nearly imperceptible. When her adrenaline is high or emotion is strong, though, it becomes much more marked. In battle, Rhiannon tends to let the bloodwrath overtake her, she can hardly keep it from doing so.

Appearance: Rhia has forest-green eyes and heavily-callused paws. She stands 6'1". Pale, whitish scars form almost a lattice on Rhia's dark brown fur, almost too many to count. She rarely smiles, and when she does, the scars on her face twist her features on the left side into a grotesque expression that looks more like a grimace than a grin. Rhiannon's form is lean, her muscles taut and wiry, her posture suggesting a constant readiness for action, like a tightly wound spring ready to release at any moment.  She wears a single silver hoop earring in her left ear, a blood-red tunic, a green kerchief tied around her neck and a red and green plaid kilt, along with twin scabbards slung over her back.

Weapons: Rhia uses the twin swords of her ancestor, Finnbarr Galedeep. Her travels took her to the Abbey one winter, where she recovered the blades from the gatehouse. After hearing his story, she swore to wield them with honor. She also carries a dirk, which serves her as both backup blade and an everyday knife.

Battlecry: "Hawaay the braaaaw! Galedeeeeep!"

Birthplace and family: She was born in a small holt on the far North coast. Her mother, Vinori Galedeep, died in childbirth. Her father, Dagro, was ambushed by vermin when Rhia was young. Her father raised her as best he could. She adored Dagro, and he taught her all he knew of wilderness survival, stealth, tracking, and the warrior's art. Yet when Rhiannon was but five seasons old, a black weasel named Shadowheart came to their holt and challenged Dagro to a duel. They fought, but when Rhiannon's father seemed to be winning, Shadowheart growled three short times- a signal to his hidden archers. . . and Dagro became riddled with arrows. She vowed to take revenge on the weasel and has been tracking him ever since.

Weaknesses: Rhiannon has never been able to use a sling, no matter how hard she's tried.